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THB20th C. Mexican Josefina Aguilar Pottery Angels
Lot 185
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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2019-11-14 10:00:00
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Featuring Pre-Columbian, Tribal / Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, historical examples from the Spanish, Mexican, and American frontiers, fossils, and more. All items offered for sale have been legally acquired, are legal to sell and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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Josefina Aguilar (Mexican, XX-XXI century), two untitled angel figures, ca. 20th century. A lovely pair of painted pottery angel figures by famous Oaxacan ceramic folk artist Josefina Aguilar. Josefina and her three sisters began creating their ceramic figures in the village of Ocatlan in Oaxaca in the last quarter of the 20th century. Josefina, in particular, gained international fame when Nelson Rockefeller collected her work during trips to Oaxaca in the 1970s. Here we have two lovely angels carrying cactus flowers in one hand before their chests as well as a cylindrical vessel on their backs between their wings. Both pieces are signed on the back of their skirts, and both represent folk art in the Mexican tradition of munecas. The angel dressed in pink has perforations throughout, perhaps so that she may be used as an incensario. The Aguilar sisters' creations celebrate Mexican traditions and folklore with imagery of Frida Kahlo, Day of the Dead, Virgin de Guadalupe, market scenes, historical, as well as religious figures like these. Size: (angel in pink) 19.75" H (50.2 cm); (angel in purple) - 19.25" H (48.9 cm)
Works by the Aguilar sisters have been collected by the International Folk Art Museum of Santa Fe, the Rockefeller wing of the San Antonio Art Museum, and the Mexican Museums of San Francisco and Chicago. Although Josefina is now blind, she still practices, creating wonderful figures from her imagination.
Provenance: ex-Moore collection, Denver, Colorado, USA, acquired 30 years ago
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#149177Both are signed on the backs of their dresses. The angel in the purple dress has one arm reattached and a chip to one of her wings. The angel in a pink dress has the tip of one wing reattached. Two beautiful examples.Condition
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